From Data Science

Seven interviews in seven days. That's the goal. If you've failed at interviewing, it's not your fault. Information overload is real and it will keep you from success. If that's you, it's ok. You are in the right place.

From Data Science

Hume's turkey lives on a farm. From this turkey's perspective life is good. Of course, there are bad days . . .

From Business

When values are clear it creates trust. It creates a common ground you can build on. It builds the foundation of a relationship.

From My Journey

Only their eyes showed they were alive. Grey matted hair, ashen clothes and faces: the dead appeared to rise up from the subway. They came in waves.

From Development

A common ask in analytics engineering is to return the working days between two dates not the calendar days.

From Business

Data is the new currency of business. When you invest in a data warehouse you need to fill it. ELT tools help you do that. These tools leverage automation. Use them.

From Business

The struggle is making sense of this scattered data, missed opportunities and a lack of strategic insights. At the speed of business, an effective data strategy is the key to unlocking your company's true potential.

From Development

Suddenly, I find myself wearing the expert hat, not because I earned it, but because everyone who knows better is gone.

From Development

I sit in a brightly lit room, adorned with charts and graphs, I can't help but feel a sense of relief mixed with trepidation. This isn't your typical support group, but rather Confessions of Analytics Practitioners (C.A.P.)—the gathering place for data analysts like me who are trapped, ensnared in a conflict of metrics. It used to be Mistaken Metrics Anonymous but the MMA shorthand drew the wrong crowd.

From Development

An Introduction for Junior Developers on Leveraging Streamlit and Snowflake for Business Intelligence (BI) Development and Data-Driven Deployment.

From Data Science

A Data Scientist I is responsible for analyzing and interpreting complex data sets to help businesses make informed decisions. This role involves designing experiments and creating predictive models. Often the primary value add for the business is communicating data-driven insights to stakeholders.

From Business

If you're having trouble finding employment or advancing in your career, a graduate degree may give you an edge in your career journey.

From Data Science

Counterfactual analysis can be used to determine the lift of a campaign or ad.

From Business

Leaders provide stability in an unstable environment, inspire teams to achieve great things. Embrace values-based leadership to create a culture of trust in your organization from employees to shareholders, better decision-making,greater creativity and innovation.

From My Journey

Now the flip side is of the same question, “What would I invest my next 10 years doing? If I am spending the next 10 years developing a skill, day in and day out, what skill would that be? What would I want?

From Development

Google actually publishes a handy search engine optimization or SEO starter guide through the google search central. We're going to go through this and go over the various pieces of how a site should be built and optimized. In terms of SEO There are three big areas of focus. I'll focus on all three parts of this SEO triangle.

From Business

Business intelligence reporting is the process of transforming data into insights that add value to the business. It helps business leaders make data-driven decisions

From Development

Notes on using Tailwind CSS that I find useful and want to keep handy.

From Development

A little Git goes a long way. You can get pretty deep into a development career with just . . .

From Design

Do you find yourself sifting through signal and noise? Is there a lot of low value data to sift through? Data is only as powerful as . . .

From Development

This is the price of experiance. I'm learning to use Gatsby. It's been two weeks. I spend an hour or two every day working through it. This is a list of resources i used to build my first Gatsby static site blog.

From Development

Notes on using Markdown that I find useful and want to keep handy.

From Business

In my early 20's my first blog failed before it ever started.

From Design

​Let me tell you about a bespoke throughput dashboard I created: a cloud based Excel workbook that breaks out visualizations by activity which engages decision makers while maintaining accessibility.

From Data Science

Attempts at controlling extreme risk should come with a warning, here be dragons.

From Data Science

As a data scientist you are probably familiar with coding. But what happens after you build your model. You can't ship a python notebook.

From My Journey

Tithing: Should You Pay On Your Gross or Net Income? The next time someone shares the “gross or net blessings” argument, share this with them . . .

From My Journey

The only discussions I ever see in both Sunday school classes or on the internet seem to center around the gross versus net question. I suspect I have spent more time thinking about tithing than anyone else on the planet. We’ll dive deep into the topic and discuss some questions you’ve probably had and probably a few you’ve never thought about.

From Development

Coding up a script that uses natural language processing techniques (NLP) to analyse letters to find a killer.

From Business

I built this first 20 hours time tracker to implement Josh Kaufman's principles.

From Development

Common ask in BI is to return the working days between two dates not the calendar days.

From Development

Notes on using Tailwind CSS that I find useful and want to keep handy.

From Business

You might call this a rant. This gets in the face of the American fable: work hard, persevere, succeed. At first this new research was hard to swallow. But now, I’ve taken the time to ponder. Discomfort has subsided. Now I’m pissed.

From My Journey

My mom is . ..

From My Journey

Video games, said Burton, is where kids are going to absorb the myths of our culture. The old model of creating books from trees is not sustainable. He urges the audience to embrace digital media. He speaks about the power of visual media and the power of video games. Moving pictures and sounds can tell a story on multiple levels, conscious and unconscious.

From My Journey

This might not be for everyone, but it is more likely for you since we are friends. I took up this challenge on my birthday and now I’m challenging you!

From Business

Data savvy managers use data for execution, putting insight into context to make things happen. Mckinsey predicts a shortfall in meeting the demand for 1.5 million data savvy managers. According to the American Management Association 75% of companies report they are ill-equipped to meet current analytics needs.

From Data Science

This week I spent some time thinking about what data I want in my data warehouse.

From Development

I want to talk about an important question, “Should you build one large database of information (a data warehouse) and then parcel off smaller portions to different organizations, or should you build a bunch of smaller scale databases (data marts) and then integrate them together later?

From My Journey

Yet, no matter your history—if you have faltered, failed, feel broken, bitter, betrayed, or beaten—know that you are not alone. God still calls to you.

From Development

This week I wanted to get into a little more about what a data warehouse is.

From My Journey

Perhaps you don’t consider yourself all that useful; perhaps you don’t consider yourself a blessing in somebody’s life.

From Development

I just finished, Creating A Data Driven Enterprise With DataOps from Qubole. I was reading for big data solutions for small business and it came up short. It boasted a clearly tech oriented author, with bonafides from Facebook’s own data lake

From My Journey

Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.

From Business

We all have that person in our lives who seems to be connected to everyone. That person with the perfect elevator pitch. That person who knows how to work a room. That person who keeps winning friends and influencing people. That that person who never eats alone.

From Data Science

That is because perceptions are hard to change. Perceptions are like averages in that respect. It doesn't matter . . .

From Business

Begin. With the humility of someone who's not sure, and the excitement of someone who knows that it's possible.

From My Journey

. . . if the people around us are falling apart . . . and we don’t notice?

From My Journey

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death

From Business

A graph only exists to make a point. Its purpose is not to present all the information. Its purpose is not to be pretty. Most of all, its purpose is not, "well, they told me I needed to put a graph here."

From Data Science

Watch this video first! You are going to have a hard time with this blog if you don't.

From My Journey

The saying goes: there are three truths: your truth, my truth, and the actual truth. Meh.

From My Journey

Animals have baffled scientists with an amazing sense of direction and instinct for home. When scientists study this fascinating behavior, they ask questions such as “How do they know where to go?” and “How does each successive generation learn this behavior?”

From Data Science

The goal of this visualization is less to present a specific narrative and more to provide a tool that gives a decision maker or interested person the ability to look into the data themselves.

From Business

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones -ish.

From Business

How do I deal with one thing after another blowing up in my face?

From Business

this post is intentionally disfigured in honor of Break the Internet. I'm annoyed that we have to continually fight this fight, but it just proves my point. Drip by drip.

From My Journey

This is a holiday about gratitude, about family and about possibility. It brings people together to celebrate the harvest, to look each other in the eye and share something magical.

From Data Science

I was interested in the churches role and influence in Africa so i looked up some numbers. Just the facts; no song and dance.

From My Journey

Is an MBA 16 times better than online coursework? It costs 16 times as much. No doubt it is better, but 16 times better?

From Business

he more I read the more I feel I need to read. It can be discouraging. It is easier for you to digest if you break it down into chunks. Here are four to start ...

From My Journey

The Lord will never permit the President of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place.

From Data Science

The job of a datascientist is to separate signal from noise. Signal represents valuable consistent relationships that we want to learn. Noise is the random correlations and stuff that will not occur again in the future.

From Business

What’s the difference between business intelligence and machine learning? Even if you google these terms it’s hard to find a good definition.

From Business

You couldn't write this book ten years ago, because ten years ago, the economy wanted you to fit in. It took care of you . . . if you fit in.

From Business

Every so often (when needed) I play hero. This feels like a hero moment. It's not.

From My Journey

That is a hard one. I don’t read a lot of fiction so the list of potentials is literally, Harry Potter, & The Hunger Games. I am going to go with the small group of people who know what Covfefe’ means.

From Data Science

Naked Economics Chapter 8 Summary: Boiled down to a simple idea, the tail effectively wags the dog.

From Business

You might be leading a team, crafting the bullet points on your resume, making a recommendation on Facebook. What do you say to persuade others to take action? What do you say?

From Data Science

There are two issues with this number. First you will run into trouble if you look for averages where there aren't any.

From Business

Two friends returned to college for their 25th reunion. They are still very much alike, but there is one big difference between them.

From Business

If you remove the top ten percent of a power curve you are left with . . . a power curve.

From Data Science

Hate is a strong word. But I do hate seeing averages used as KPIs. The problem is . . .

From Business

8 Lessons Leaned When I Lost My Job Because I Made A Huge Mistake.

From My Journey

I often find it hard to sing sunny, bouncing, lyrics. This is the greatest talk I have heard in a long time

From Business

We assume society is homogenous because pop culture places so much emphasis on the individual. But it’s not!

From My Journey

Is there is such a thing as an alternative fact? Aren’t facts by definition true? If proven false then don’t they cease to be . . . fact?

From My Journey

Have I been kidding myself all along? I no longer . . . belong. Did i ever?

From My Journey

We need to stop waiting on others to fix our problems. We need to stop holding our nose while we wait to see what our parties bring us. We need to be the outsider in Washington.

From Data Science

To confuse them is to literally confuse a thoughtful response with failing to respond.

From My Journey

To confuse them is to literally confuse a thoughtful response with failing to respond.

From My Journey

My Dr. referred me to Dr. Amad two years ago, when I was first diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He ordered the PET scan. I asked why. His response chilled me: “Because I can’t look at your lungs with a sonogram.”

From Data Science

Did you know what three Excel shortcuts save the most time? A: Cut, copy, paste.

From Data Science

Did you know what three Excel shortcuts save the most time? A: Cut, copy, paste.

From Business

Become a catalyst for change. Others might be intimidated by new knowledge, fear what they don’t understand. But we can calm those fears and discover new understanding because we are willing to soak it in. Because we crave discovery. Think into the deep.

From development

User Story: As an analyst, I need the ability to communicate susinctly, so I can translate business needs into technical requirements.

From My Journey

Saturday night, 12:30 a.m. I'm standing in front of a '15 Dodge Challenger Hellcat. The dealership is closed. I stopped by on my way home from the office, I'm alone with my thoughts.

From Business

Video games, said Burton, is where kids are going to absorb the myths of our culture. The old model of creating books from trees is not sustainable. He urges the audience to embrace digital media. He speaks about the power of visual media and the power of video games. Moving pictures and sounds can tell a story on multiple levels, conscious and unconscious.

From Business

The cure is appropriate planning, tempered by marginal analysis of the trade off between planning and execution; ering on over-communication with a clear communication plan . . .

From Data Science

Do you remember what that is called?

From Data Science

It is a romantic suggestion that a neighborhood will come together in tragedy, albeit temporarily. However, anecdotal evidence does suggest that under such circumstances the criminal element will lay low and bide its time until the heightened level of caution and police presence subsides. While this makes intuitive sense, is there evidence to support such a conclusion?

From Business

Attempts at controlling extreme risk should come with a warning, here be dragons.

From Data Science

Attempts at controlling extreme risk should come with a warning, here be dragons.

From Data Science

Attempts at controlling extreme risk should come with a warning, here be dragons.

From Business

Projects fail, not people. When I get a project I am relentless about making things happen. It is hard (but necessary) to admit when things aren’t happening; no one wants to drown a puppy. That is what it feels like some times.

From Business

So you can’t look at that as a thousand machines, but instead look at thousand machines as a single computer. I look at a data center as a computer.

From Business

Good ideas rarely emerge fully formed; rather they evolve in a discursive and unpredictable fashion. ‘Little Bets’ advises on the value of taking small exploratory steps from which, as the book’s subtitle has it, breakthrough ideas emerge.

From Data Science

Before and After. This is a basic comparison of means for the time periods before and after treatment. For this specification we assume that Y in the post-treatment period is equal to Y in the pre-treatment period in the absence of treatment.

From Data Science

I was interested in the churches role and influence in Africa so i looked up some numbers. Just the facts; no song and dance.

From Data Science

This is my methodology / algorithm for completing a literature review on any given topic.

From Data Science

If we develop a company specific factor model of the risk premium that includes these variables among other significant variables, we should be able to identify company specific traits with explanatory power.

From Business

It is days like today that I know I love being in the game.

From Data Science

This site will take any document (blog) and reduce it to it’s key themes. I can think of several interesting applications for introspection and pre-reading . . .

From Business

My thoughts and feelings on domestic policy relating to the underpinnings of republican economic thought and the quantitative support for policy decisions.

From Data Science

Naked Economics Chapter 13 Summary: Boiled down to a simple idea, we can split that atom, land on the moon, decode the human genome, yet two billion people live on less than $2 a day. Their economies have failed them.

From Data Science

Naked Economics Chapter 10 Summary: Boiled down to a simple idea, prices rise when the government prints too much money.

From Data Science

Naked Economics Chapter 9 Summary: Boiled down to a simple idea, a country’s standard of living depends on its ability to produce.

From Data Science

Organized Interests definition: a group of people or an organization seeking or receiving special advantages, typically through political lobbying. Another term is special interest.

From Data Science

According to, A Monetary History of the United States, ineffective monetary policy accompanied every severe recession and every significant inflationary period over the past and century

From Data Science

Keynes provided an alternate school of thought and a solution. Keynes introduced the idea of marginal propensity to consume; a number that indicates a persons likeliness to spend an extra dollar. He used this to develop his solution, government spending on public resources so as to fill the gap left by consumption and investment.

From Data Science

Naked Economics Chapter 2 Summary: Boiled down to a simple idea, be wary of what you wish for because it might not be what you want. Incentives matter but like a genie in a bottle they are problematic.

From Business

The BI Triangle has the power to turn ordinary ideas into great fortune. A business can have both a spiritual and a business mission to be successful. There are many people with great ideas, but few people with great fortune.

From Business

What do you do for a living? Here are some examples answers from a life coach.

From Business

Ten Reasons to Become a Coach. Imagine getting up in the morning excited about the day ahead. You have some quiet time and go out for a run on the beach. After breakfast, . . .

From Business

The Golden Rule of Life Coaching: Coach 50 People

From My Journey

So gmail has a chat feature that i wanted to explore. You should get a gmail account.